In ToD PS1 one needs to equip an accessory called "Channeling" to a character that then can be controlled with the second controller. You can find it as early as in the
In what way are Xillia's co-op battles broken? Is it similarly unplayable as ToS GC's co-op or is it just poorly balanced?
In what way are Xillia's co-op battles broken? Is it similarly unplayable as ToS GC's co-op or is it just poorly balanced?
Usually I play through Tales games together with my girlfriend and a cousin of mine and I think playing that way is just incredibly more fun even though the games tend to become very easy that way (one thing I learned: even a bad human player is leagues better than the AI). It would be a pretty big bummer if Xillia's co-op would be fundamentally broken similar to ToS' (where players 2 to 4 simply couldn't see shit on the screen).
That sounds terrible, wow.
It's not at all broken in a way ToS GC is, but a way worse design mistake. Xillia's core battle mechanic for higher artes essentially involves two characters at the same time. As both characters are basically controlled by the player who started said Link Arte the developer opted to switch the second involved character to auto even when it was manually controlled before! Two player multiplayer should be somewhat manageable when organizing well, three or four players can be quickly infuriating to most involved players with said battle mechanic. Simply not using Link Artes is not really an option either as it locks out from most more powerful artes and combos. (Beaten. Again. Must. Become. Less. Wordy.)
Heh, I like separating the TS and TD games, but the TD games generally stand out more with regards to the combat specifics than the TS games.
Pretty much. Xillia's co-op is so disappointing in comparison to the other games. :/
Right, just like for ToS GC multiplayer was likely only a feature check box to tick without any thought put into making design and programming fit with it. But the real craziness is that it at the same time makes soloing near impossible, an approach to playing Tales games that was already specifically fostered in "Team Destiny" games before by allowing optional one character "team" and the Narikiri dolls. So it's not only the already neglected multiplayer feature (which is getting removed in all the portable ports so far) that suffered on this.
Part of the reason why I don't like Free Run much. It's not so much a Linear Motion battle system when the player can choose to Free Run out of the way of attacks or fluidly run around the enemy off of a line to smack it from behind, is it?Datschge said:
Have you ever seriously tried to play it with a second (or maybe even third) player?
It's really lot of fun, especially because the games actually become more engaging to me when played in a group. I normally don't really care all that much about the stories or the gameplay outside of the battles the Tales games offer, but when you aren't playing alone everything becomes suddenly much more interesting.
Apart of that, I don't think it's all that unusual to play an RPG "together" with the girl-/boyfriend or another good friend. Normally it ends up that one person is playing, and the other is watching while both are talking about the game; and in Tales game both can actually be part of the game, which is pretty neat.
Actually, the lack of direct co-op gameplay during the non-battle scenes is pretty neglible, imo. When in dungeons or cities the games are mostly about two things: figuring out where to go / what to do and following the story. It doesn't really matter for both thing whether or not you are actually controlling the character on screen directly or if you are thinking together with the first player what you have to do next.
Have you ever seriously tried to play it with a second (or maybe even third) player?
It's really lot of fun, especially because the games actually become more engaging to me when played in a group. I normally don't really care all that much about the stories or the gameplay outside of the battles the Tales games offer, but when you aren't playing alone everything becomes suddenly much more interesting.
Apart of that, I don't think it's all that unusual to play an RPG "together" with the girl-/boyfriend or another good friend. Normally it ends up that one person is playing, and the other is watching while both are talking about the game; and in Tales game both can actually be part of the game, which is pretty neat.
Actually, the lack of direct co-op gameplay during the non-battle scenes is pretty neglible, imo. When in dungeons or cities the games are mostly about two things: figuring out where to go / what to do and following the story. It doesn't really matter for both thing whether or not you are actually controlling the character on screen directly or if you are thinking together with the first player what you have to do next.
They released Narikiri Dungeon X in 2010.
(I know it's a remake, but I liked it a lot.)
Actually, there have been several GameStop posters spotted around:
There's one at my local store, and plenty of others have seen them at their GameStops (just check the Tales Facebook page - lots of people have posted pictures).
Aside from that, though, I haven't seen anything along the lines of website or TV advertising. A TV spot would be nice.
I bet the boxart isn't even going to be reversible with the superior boxart on the other side like the JP one was, lol.
A TV spot would be like asking Namco to.... you know, make an actual effort in advertising the game which is something sadly IMPOSSIBLE .
Yup. And judging by other threads on the subject, it looks like almost everyone with an import/JP copy of the game uses the alternate boxart because it's just better.
Box art is fine. But should have been this: